Conductor&#39;s checking blank and receipt



R. C.LAURIER AND F. MONETTE.

CONDUCTORS CHECKING BLANK AND RECEIPT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.20, 1920- Patented Mar. 7, 1922.

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RUBEN G. LAURIER AND FRANCIS MONETTE, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

CONDUCTOR/S CHECKING BLANK AND RECEIPT;

Patented Mar. *7, 1922.

Application filed. December 20, 1920. Serial No. 431,951.

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that we, RUBEN C. Launnm and FRANCIS Monn'r'rn, British subjects, re-

siding at #210 and #138 Visitation Street,

respectively, in the city of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Conductors Checking Blanks and Receipts, and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in a conductors and passengers checking blank or record, and the main objcct of this invention is to provide means, for both the conductor of a passenger train and the company, of checking the number of passengers on each train, and to enable the company to detect fraud; to give a receipt to the passenger for each fare collected, whether it is in the form of a cash fare or a pass, ticket, etc; to indicate the time and point of departure of the passenger and his destination; the designation of the collected fare and the destination being indicated on the conductors blank or record, by one punch mark, and on the passengefis receipt by preferably two punch marks, but the second punch mark should be necessary only to indicate second class fares.

These checking blanks or records are preferably arranged in the form of a pad or booklet, each conductors blank and passengers receipt bearing the same consecutive serial number. The lowest detachable part constitutes the passengers receipt, and the upper one, the conductors blank. The conductors blank bears a list of the stations in consecutive order; the designation of the different fares; a number corresponding to each station; and a set of numbers from 1 to 1.2 and 1 to to designate the hours and minutes of the arrival and departure of a train from each station, while the receipt bears the numbers corresponding to each station and the designationof the fare.

On arrival of the train at a station the conductor must punch the hour of arrival and the numeral corresponding to the name of the station reached on the last blank used, which receipt has been detached for the last fare received. When making these two punch marks, the conductor must include the next following blank, inasmuch as the number of station and hour of arrival is concerned. For indicating the minutes, he shall make two separate punch marks, one for each of the blanks just punched, to indicate the eXact time of arrival on the former,and the exact time of departure on the latter blank punched. The difference of time between them will indicate exactly the length of time of the stop. By so doing, two punch marks are eliminated for every station on the line. These punch marks being made only at each station, will take very little time on the part of the conductor and save also a considerable number of punch marks, i. e., one punch markfor each passenger boarding the train, and nevertheless providing a full record of passengers point of departure and destination. This blank is also used to check the fare of the passengcr by umn, opposite the station to be reached; but the following blanks used should not be punched with the time or even the number corresponding to the station, at which point the passengers have boarded the train. Any number of blanks used between two points on the line will indicate the number of passengers who have boarded the train at the point of departure. When the blanks are returned to the company after the trip, the number of punched blanks should correspond to the number of fares received. Naturally, each passenger mustreceive the receipt form for his fare.

The invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawing and following description.

The drawing discloses a pcrmpectivc view of the pad, the space bearing the time on the top blank having been punched to indicate the time of departure from i. e., Como, and to illustrate how it should appear when punched in receipt of a return ticket for Ottawa.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings; 1, on the blank serial number (4203), indicates the column used forthe numerals corresponding to each station. 2 indicates the space used to bear the hour, and 3 indicates the space used to bear the minutes. 4c are spaces which are punched to indicate the point of destination and the nature of the fare. 5 is the passengers receipt, which is punched at the number corresponding to the station appearing on the blank, and to which every passenger is entitled. For checking all passengers one punch mark in the fare colboarding the train at Como for a destination at any other point of the line, only one punch mark, in the space 4 is necessary on the blank. Another punch mark on the receipt 5 to indicate the destination of the passenger will complete the operation of checking up a fare.

lVhen reaching Hudson, for instance, the last blank used and the following one which has not been used and from which the receipt has not been detached should be punched by the conductor to indicate the time and the number of the station reached, in the manner above described, and shown in the accompanying drawing. This should be done at every station.

Thus, as will readily be seen, with four punch marks made at every station, and only two punch marks on receipt of the fare of each passenger, an accurate record will be kept. It will enable any company to detect fraud, by being furnished with means of checking up the nature of the fare received and the destination of each passenger.

hat we claim as our invention is A checking blank and a detachable receipt form of the character described bearing each the same serial consecutive number, comprising a blank ruled crosswise and lengthwise to form a plurality of columns; a plurality of spaces intermediate of said columns hearing the names of stations, one of said columns provided with numerals in horizontal dicates the alignment with the names of stations and indicating the class of fare and destination of the passengers when punched; a plurality of delineated columnar spaces appropriately designated to correspond when punched with the names of stations and in alignment with said names of stations; nu merals in said columns corresponding to the hours and minutes; and a receipt detachably secured to said blank bearing corresponding station designations and indications of the class of fares, and adapted to be punched twice to fare and the destination of the passenger, said punch marks correspondil'ig to the punch mark on the blank which indicates the class of fare and destination of the passenger; while another punch mark on said blank, in the delineated columnar spaces inpoint the passenger has boarded the train; two other punch marks in the columns corresponding to the hours and minutes on said blank indicatingthe time of arrival and departure of the train from the point the passenger has boarded the train.

Signed at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this 20th day of November, 1920.

RUBEN C. LAURIER. FRANCIS MON ETTE. Witnesses C. PATENAUDE,

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